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18

Using the Kindle in Europe

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At Guardian.co.uk, the writer compares using the Amazon Kindle in Europe and the USA:

In America the gadget is hooked up to the EVDO high-speed data network, whatever that is. Downloading books from Amazon using one-click settings is child’s play. Leave it on overnight and the New York Times, Le Monde, the Irish Times or Frankfurter Allgemeine (but not - yet - the Guardian) will (for $9.99 a month) be waiting for you in the morning.

In Britain, it’s a little more complicated. Actually, it’s quite a bit more complicated. You have to buy the machine in the US, and can register for an Amazon Kindle account only if you can supply a US billing and credit card address. It won’t work on any European network, but you can get round that by hooking it up to a laptop via a USB cable.

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